THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION about relative clauses is by no means complete; you should supplement the information appearing here with appropriate textbook and grammar book explanations. A:  A relative clause is a sentence (or sentence-like structure) that is used to modify a word, typically a noun. (1. "likes"; 2. "are"; 3. "works") -- is a relative clause. A: Yes.  But the structure of Korean relative clauses is quite different from that of English relative clauses. (2) the tense of the verb (present, past, future). > To the verb root, add -ã´ if the verb root ends in a vowel or -ì if the verb root ends in a consonant. NOTE that relative clauses using existence verbs or descriptive verbs in the past tense are not used nearly as often as their present tense counterparts. As such, we'll hold off on how to form such structures for the time being.